//page 93 clear; close; clc; disp('Three columns in R2 cannot be independent.') A=[1 2 1;1 2 3]; disp(A,'Given matrix:') [L,U]=lu(A); disp(U,'U='); disp('If c3 is 1 ,then back-substitution Uc=0 gives c2=-1,c1=1,With these three weights,the first column minus the second plus the third equals zero ,therefore linearly dependent.')